Kerjasama Antara Pemerintahan Amerika Serikat Dan Filipina Dalam Memberantas Abu Sayyaf Group Di Filipina Selatan

Abstract

This study focuseson the discussionterrorist attacks against the United States at the World Trade Center Building in New York and the Pentagon Building in Washington on September 11, 2001 (9/11). Where the tragedy of 9/11 is Al-Qaeda terrorist network that once led by Osama bin Laden. And has links with the Abu Sayyaf Group. The Abu Sayyaf Group is a militant group operating in the Southern Philippines and promotes the establishment as an independent Islamic state in Mindanao and the Sulu Islands of the southern Philippines. The Abu Sayyaf Group is involved in various acts of violence, such as bombings, killings, kidnappings and hostage-taking as well as extortion. In its development, the Abu Sayyaf Group may threaten the national security of the United States and the Philippines that are military or armed threats and require a military response in the face of it. To face the threat of Abu Sayyaf Group, the two countries agreed to establish cooperation. In an attempt to confront military threats or other armed threats coming from the Abu Sayyaf Group. Thus, the United States and the Philippines undertook military cooperation through joint military exercises between the two forces held in 2002 in the Basilan Islands of the southern Philippines. This study aims to show the success and kegagalam in the application of cooperation between the United States and the Philippines. This ultimately gained public and domestic political support for US and Philippine cooperation complemented by the Philippine government's program of social reform and economic improvement on Basilan Island where the Abu Sayyaf Group operates.